Corps Suevia Freiburg

Corps Suevia Freiburg
university	Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
Donated	June 21, 1815 in Freiburg
Umbrella organization	KSCV
SC	Freiburg SC (founding member)
Motto	Virtute constanti fulget salus.
Colours
Fox colors
Circle
address	Lessingstrasse 14 Freiburg im Breisgau
Homepage	www.suevia-freiburg.de

The Corps Suevia Freiburg is an obligatory and colored student association in the Freiburg Seniors' Convent . The corps brings together students and alumni of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and is a member of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), the umbrella organization of the oldest German student associations. The corps members are called Freiburg Swabians .

Color

Suevia has the colors black-yellow-blue , the blue being a sky blue. The colors are read from below and the ribbons have a golden percussion . The Fuchs Band after various nary changes in blue-yellow permanently since the 1840s, black and yellow , also reading from bottom and with golden percussion. The pub jackets are black with yellow lacing. A yellow flat cap is worn for this. The Freiburg Swabians are jokingly referred to as "Egg Swabians", which is probably due to the yellow hats.

Origin of the colors

After looking at it, black and yellow go back to the colors of the Swabian Empire, although the origin of blue is unclear. Another explanation sees the origin in the country team and country man motives. According to this, the historical colors of the areas around Freiburg played a role, which in 1805 fell to the Electorate of Baden through the Peace of Pressburg , which became the Grand Duchy in 1806 . On the one hand, Front Austria led the colors black and yellow and the Breisgau on the other hand blue and yellow. The combination of both color combinations then resulted in black-yellow-blue.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is a classic, four-part student coat of arms . In the upper, heraldic right field in red on blue it shows a Zähringer lion striding to the right, an indication of the lineage of the dukes of Zähringen , who were also founders of the city of Freiburg. In the upper, heraldic left field, the circle with the letters V, C, F and S can be seen first. On the one hand, this stands for the motto Virtute constanti fulget salus! as well as for the circular saying Vivat circulus fratrum sueviae! Below is a Roman thirteen , which refers to the thirteen founders of Suevia. The number is flanked by a J for the founder Nicolaus Jaeger and a D for the re-founder Albert Daur, who reconstituted Suevia in 1847 as an inactive member of the Heidelberg Swabians . At the bottom is the date of foundation in Roman numerals.

In the lower, heraldic right field there are two crossed rackets . The letters GUN for the weapon saying Gladius ultor noster! standing are wrapped in a wreath of oak leaves. This saying exists alongside the classic field shout Suevia sei's Panier , which can usually be seen above the coat of arms. In the lower, heraldic left field, the corps colors to be read from below, black-yellow-blue, are shown.

history

Gable relief on the fraternity house with the corps coat of arms

The Corps Suevia was donated on June 21, 1815 by thirteen students from the University of Freiburg in the Gasthaus zur Stadt Wien , which at the time was just outside the city and is now in the Herdern district. This makes the Suevia the second oldest connection of the University of Freiburg after the Rhenania .

In June 1815 Rhenania and Suevia founded the Freiburg Senior Citizens' Convention (SC), the oldest association of student corporations in Freiburg. In 1818 there was a temporary union with the Corps Rhenania, which was dissolved again in the spring of 1820. With Rhenania and Helvetia, Suevia guaranteed the revised SC-Comment in January 1821 . When Helvetia dissolved (1822), Swabia and Rhenanen founded the Corps Allemannia Freiburg on July 8, 1824. The Corps had to suspend several times in the 1830s and 40s, but was finally reconstituted in 1847. In 1850, Suevia and Rhenania again formed a joint senior citizens' convention (SC) and took over the Heidelberg SC-Comment. Since 1856, Suevia has belonged to the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV) through the Freiburg SC . The corps has no district affiliation within the KSCV . Unofficially, Suevia is referred to as mouse gray, which is derived from the befriended Corps in the Black Circle .

In 1890, the Corps played a key role in the duel Vering-Salomon , which in the Empire a fierce public debate about the duel being led. At that time, Suevia granted the Jewish student Eduard Salomon weapon protection . Salomon had previously been invited to a pistol duel by the Freiburg Rhenanen Carl Vering and was fatally injured during the exchange of fire. As a result, the Freiburg Schwabe Wilhelm Kessler for his participation as Solomon was Sekundant from the University relegated .

At the beginning of the winter semester 1935/36, the Corps ceased active operations. Several students, including two former foxes of the Suevia, founded the Kameradschaft Schwabenland on November 6, 1938 , which acted as a direct continuation of the Corps. She moved into the corp house in January 1939, and from the summer semester of 1939 she fought again. The corps-like active operation was expanded despite the temporary closure of the university after the beginning of the war, including the drum operation. In the summer semester of 1941, the Freiburger Waffenring was re-established. The camaraderie lasted until the French troops marched in in 1945.

As the presiding suburban corps , Suevia twice appointed the chairman of the ordinary Kösener Congress (oKC) - in 1930 with Kurt Kleinschmidt and in 2017/18 with Pascal Frey.

See also : List of Kösener Corps  and Freiburg Senior Citizens' Convention

Corp houses

First corp house

In 1886 a commission of old men was appointed for preparatory work and the construction of a corp's own house . In the summer of 1888 a stock corporation was founded for the purpose of building or purchasing a corporation house . This company acquired the house of the painter Emil Lugo , who was known in Freiburg at the time, in Lessingstrasse, what was then Schillerstrasse. 40,000 gold marks were raised for the acquisition and expansion  . With the inauguration of the corp house in 1888, Suevia had the first fraternity house in Freiburg (Rhenania followed in 1892 and Hasso-Borussia in 1898).

New corp house in 1910

Drawing of the corp house from 1912

The old house only served its purpose for a few years. It soon became apparent that it had become too small. So the plan arose to get a bigger house. The house was demolished and the immediately adjacent neighboring house had to be acquired in order to enlarge the building site.

The Karlsruhe architecture professor Hermann Billing , who was known as the planner and architect of the new Freiburg university building, was won over to plan the new corp house . The foundation stone was laid on June 21, 1909 and the inauguration took place a year later in 1910 as part of the 95th Foundation Festival. The architectural style represents a simple form of Art Nouveau . In addition to the purchase of the neighboring house, the total cost of the new building was 85,000 gold marks, to which 10,000 gold marks were added for the new interior furnishings. Foundations from the circle of the old gentlemen were very rich at that time. Particularly noteworthy is the paneling of the lower salon with pine wood , which was specially prepared for this purpose from the high Alps.

This house lived up to its tasks for decades.

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  The smoking room, the so-called leather corner, on the mezzanine floor with pine wood paneling

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  The old pub was on the first floor until 1951, still with the large vault

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  Bowling alley in the basement of the Corphaus

Second World War

Until 1939 it was under the administration of old men of the corps, which had to cease active operations in 1936 and could only be continued in the form of a comradeship . On March 1, 1939, the house was cleared in favor of an SS standard and occupied by the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the war . From 1941 it was again available to the officially forbidden corps operation, which was run under the guise of "Kameradschaft Schwabenland". During the war, the corp house suffered only minor damage to the windows and roof.

post war period

Corpshaus in Lessingstrasse ( 47 ° 59 ′ 26.2 ″  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 32.9 ″  E ), formerly the location of the home of the painter Emil Lugo

Detail of the corp house with the city arms of Freiburg

Thanks to the efforts of the old gentlemen, registration by the housing office after the end of the war was prevented, which prevented allocation for other purposes.

The first floor was rented to a bombed-out landlady in July 1945, whose contract was later taken over by the Riegeler brewery . The Oberpostdirektion , which was relocated from Karlsruhe to Freiburg, moved into the two upper floors until it was relocated again in 1951.

Despite the reconstitution on December 1, 1949, the house could not be taken over completely due to the financial difficulties at the time.

The first floor was therefore rented to the ADAC in 1951 . The rental income made it possible to take over the second floor with four active rooms. The lease with the Riegeler brewery was also terminated. At the suggestion of the ADAC, in the winter of 1951/52 the large pub room , which until then had a barrel vault extending over two floors , was redesigned with a false ceiling at the level of the second floor. This increased the area of ​​the second floor by a third.

The interior was completed, the corp house management with a corps servant was ensured again and additional active rooms were set up so that in the winter semester 1954/55 the renovated corp house, with the exception of the first floor, could be handed over to the active. The old rulers had donated the considerable amount of 40,000 DM for this entire campaign for the circumstances at the time.

In July 1957, the ADAC also left the corp house, so that it was now completely available for their own use.

Latest development

Extensive renovations were carried out in the 1980s and 1990s, during which the electricity and heating system as well as the windows and roof were replaced. In addition, a granny flat was created for the corps servant couple. In 1985 the Schwabenhaus was placed under monument protection, which obliges to observe the preservation of monuments in further renovations.

particularities

Apart from the university cities of Jena and Halle, it is very unusual to read the connecting colors from below. Outside of these cities, only the Corps Suevia Heidelberg and the Corps Suevia Freiburg do this .

In addition to the annual Solemn Corps Boys' Convent (FCC), which meets at the foundation festival , the Corps owns the rare institution of the Corps Commission (CK), which meets twice a year, prepares important decisions and proposals and makes recommendations to the FCC.

In contrast to the other SC Corps, whose corps archives suffered massively in some cases during the Second World War , Suevia can rely on an extensive inventory that goes back to 1815. She has worked through this archive inventory in an exemplary manner.

Unlike most corps, Suevia does not have a color stanza that is usually sung to the tune of So just in time for the second . Like some other corps, the Freiburg Swabians have their own color song, which is sung to the melody of the song by Ernst Moritz Arndt Sind wir united at the good hour . The color song comprises six stanzas and was composed especially for Suevia in 1897 by a corps brother . The Swabians only sing the first verse in pubs outside of town . This reads

Where the giant mountains of the Black Forest stretch,
where vine leaves wreath the slope,
where the forms of the minster stretch out powerfully,
a golden May shone for us.
Whoever proudly called himself a Swabian,
who ever raved
about Freiburg's beautiful Gau, /: the
expensive colors black-yellow-blue are forever engraved in their hearts . : /

and display information about the image

200th Foundation Festival

Trivia

Since 1991 an unusually high number of Swedes have joined the Freiburg Swabians. On the one hand, this has to do with the general openness of the Swedish students towards the traditional student associations in their home country . The custom of hats and ribbons is not alien to them and has no negative connotation in the Swedish student nations . On the other hand, Uppsala University offers a German language course in Freiburg every semester, which means that many Swedes come to Freiburg on a regular basis. Last but not least, Edward Blom , who is very well-known in Sweden, has been a Freiburg Swabian since 1993 and likes to show himself on social networks, on television and even in his latest cookbook with a ribbon and hat and other fraternity student utensils.

Members

In alphabetic order

• Ernst-August Ahrens (1860–1926) was a farmer, association functionary of the Federation of Farmers, MdHdA
• Alfred Ammelburg (1864–1939), chemist, board member of Farbwerke Hoechst AG and IG Farben
• Walter Bartram (1893–1971), politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Member of the Bundestag
• Ernst Behr (1854–1923), senior bailiff in Baden, presiding judge at the Karlsruhe Administrative Court
• Bernhard Blencke (1903–1979), orthopedist and university professor
• Ernst Adolf Birkenmayer (1842–1916), MdR
• Edward Blom (* 1970), archivist, historian, writer, television personality in Sweden
• Bernhard Boll (1913–1968), publisher ( Solinger Tageblatt )
• Waldemar Braun (1877–1954), Hartmann und Braun AG, board member of the Reich Association of German Industry
• Philipp Broemser (1886–1940), physiologist, rector of the LMU
• Wilhelm Bulster (1803–1875), senior magistrate and magistrate in Baden
• Conrad Cichorius (1863–1932), historian, rector of the University of Bonn
• Julius Daniels (1873–1919), District Administrator of the Biedenkopf district
• Wolfram Dörinkel (1907–1975), lawyer, politician, Member of the Bundestag
• Fritz Dörner (1908–1976), General Physician in the Air Force
• Theodor von Dusch (1824–1890), professor of pathology at Heidelberg University
• Manfred Engelschall (1921–2008), judge, chairman of the complaints committee of the German Press Council (1921–2008)
• Alois Faller (1812–1882), court attorney in Freiburg, member of the Baden Constituent Assembly from 1849, attorney at the German immigration authorities in New York
• Makarius Felleisen (1802–1850), Baden Oberamtmann, head of the district offices of Sinsheim, Buchen and Wolfach
• Rudolf Franksen (1864–1913), lawyer, consular officer
• Philipp Fuchs (around 1859–1931), Oberamtmann of Baden and district court director
• Jens Funk (* 1954), ophthalmologist in Zurich
• Georg Geisler (1881–1964), administrative lawyer, Lord Mayor of Gleiwitz
• Wilhelm Groh (1890–1964), legal scholar, university professor, rector of Heidelberg University
• Werner Hartenstein (1879–1947), Lord Mayor of Freiberg in Saxony
• Hermann Heineke (1873–1922), surgeon
• Ottfried Hennig (1937–1999), Member of the Bundestag, Chairman of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein, spokesman for the East Prussian Landsmannschaft
• Friedrich Karl von Hessen (1868–1940), general of the infantry; Head of the House of Hessen-Kassel, King of Finland
• Karl Hippmann (1812–1875), senior magistrate in Achern, Freiburg and Staufen
• Heinz Jaeger (* 1924), medical specialist, philatelist, honorary president of the Association of German Philatelists
• Adolf Kempkes (1871–1931), politician of the German People's Party, member of the National Assembly, MdR, State Secretary and Head of the Reich Chancellery
• Kurt Kleinschmidt (1904–1989), German lawyer, economic functionary and bank director
• Hans von Krafft-Ebing (1854–1930), administrative lawyer in the Grand Duchy of Baden
• Emil Krauss (1870–1936), judge, diplomat and ministerial official, deputy governor in German New Guinea
• George Löning (1900–1945), legal scholar
• Eduard Montford (1819–1881), senior bailiff, head of the district offices in Blumenfeld, Engen and Offenburg, city director in Bruchsal
• Rudolf Manz (1908–1996), forensic doctor
• Lorenzo Mavilis (1860–1912), Greek scholar, poet, parliamentarian and freedom fighter
• Carl Mayer von Mayerfels (1825-1883), heraldist
• Wilhelm Melchers (1900–1971), German diplomat and ambassador
• Eduard Müller (1854–1908), Reich judge
• Anton Nombride (1799–1857), lawyer, Baden state official, member of the Baden Council of Estates
• Adolf Ostner (1830–1905), chief magistrate in Schönau, Boxberg, Mosbach and Konstanz
• Norbert Pfretzschner (1850–1927), forester, sculptor and writer
• Gisbert Poensgen (1923–2011), diplomat
• Rolf Prasch (1883–1960), actor, theater director and theater director
• Heinz Psotta (1888–1945), mine director, deputy board member of Kaliwerke Aschersleben AG
• Anton Rasina (1843–1923), senior bailiff, chairman of the board of the Baden insurance company for invalidity and old age insurance
• Eduard Rehn (1880–1972), professor of surgery
• Josef von Reichlin-Meldegg (1806–1876), lawyer, Baden state official
• Joseph Rieder (1797–1848), chief magistrate in Ettenheim, Stockach and Wolfach
• Erich Rominger (1886–1967), pediatrician in Kiel
• Hermann von Rotteck (1816–1845), historian and lawyer, liberal in the Grand Duchy of Baden
• Peter Schacht (1901–1945), composer (resigned in 1934)
• Albert Schinzinger (physician) (1827–1911), surgeon
• Albert Schinzinger (entrepreneur) (1856–1926), consular officer in Japan
• Friedrich Schmitt (1866–1941), chief magistrate in Boxberg, Wertheim and Eberbach, district administrator in Müllheim
• Ernst Scholz (politician, 1874) (1874–1932), Lord Mayor of Kassel, Lord Mayor of Charlottenburg, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Reich Economics Minister, Chairman of the German People's Party (DVP),
• Wilhelm Paul Schreiber (1893–1918), fighter pilot, holder of the Pour le Mérite
• Holger Schroeter (* 1971), Chancellor of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität zu Heidelberg
• Theo Spreter von Kreudenstein (1908–1992), professor for ZMK medicine in Kiel
• Karl Steiner (1861–1929), chief magistrate in Oberkirch, Weinheim, Offenburg and Mannheim
• Maximilian (von) Stoesser (1820–1894), City Director of Freiburg
• Peter Stoll (1931–2015), forester and conservationist
• Joseph Streicher (around 1801–1880), senior bailiff in Schönau, university bailiff in Freiburg
• Joseph von Syberg zu Sümmern (1800–1871), ducal house marshal of Nassau, director of the court theater, member of the estates of the Duchy of Nassau
• Heinrich Triepel (1868–1946), constitutional lawyer, excluded from the corps in 1934
• Franz Volk (1823–1890), revolutionary, doctor, historian, mayor
• Otto Wachs (1874–1941), District Administrator for the districts of Jork and Süderdithmarschen, Member of the Board of the Landesbank of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein
• Otto Wachs (1909–1998), spokesman for the board of HAPAG, owner of the Berliner Handelsgesellschaft, bronze medalist in the 8mR class at the 1936 Olympic sailing competitions
• Paul Waeldin (1888–1969), manufacturer, member of the Baden state parliament, Baden's finance minister, honorary citizen of Lahr
• Rudolf Wahrendorff (1864–1932), psychiatrist
• Xaver Weiss (1811–1898), senior magistrate, board member in Blumenfeld, Villingen, Gengenbach and St. Blasien, mayor in Waldkirch
• Maximilian Werner (1815–1875), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• Hermann Wenzel (1882–1954), executive board and supervisory board of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG
• Otto Winterer (1846–1915), Lord Mayor of Freiburg

Holder of the Klinggräff Medal

The Klinggräff Medal of the Stifterverein Alter Corpsstudenten was awarded to:

• Jan M. Olaf (1993)
• Alexander SC Schuster (2014)
• Michael Heilmann (2020)

Conditions

→ Main article : Kösener circles

cartel

Corps Hasso-Nassovia

Friends

Corps Rhenania Heidelberg

Corps Suevia Munich

Corps Saxonia Leipzig

Corps Brunsviga Göttingen

Official conception ratio

Corps Bavaria Würzburg

literature

• Walter Beil: 150 years Corps Suevia Freiburg im Breisgau. Solingen 1965.
• Wolfgang Büdingen: The Freiburg Senior Citizens' Convention in the Events of Time and Student Life at the Alberto Ludoviciana. Frankfurt am Main 1931.
• Hans Fischer, Gerhard Becker: List of members of the Corps Suevia in Freiburg im Breisgau 1815–1955. Solingen, Boll, 1955.
• Günter Nitschk ,: double band people and foreign relations of the Corps Suevia to Freiburg im Breisgau 1815–1955. Freiburg 1960.
• Klaus Rüther, Joachim-Kurt Schmidt: List of members of the Corps Suevia in Freiburg im Breisgau 1815-2010. Freiburg, 2010.
• Albert Siebert: Corps Suevia in Freiburg im Breisgau in the time of its 100th anniversary. 1815-1915. Karlsruhe 1915.

Web links

Commons : Corps Suevia Freiburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the "Corps Suevia Freiburg"
• Search for "Corps Suevia Freiburg" in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Corps Suevia Freiburg" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aribert Schwenke: About the origin of the different colors of our Schwabencorps . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 34 (1989), pp. 128-133
2. ^ Albert Siebert: Corps Suevia to Freiburg im Breisgau in the time of its 100th anniversary. 1815-1915 . Karlsruhe 1915.
3. ↑ German "Life shines through steadfast honesty!"
4. ↑ dt. "Long live the Swabian Brothers!"
5. ↑ Eng. "The sword, our avenger!" "
6. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 42.
7. ↑ Martin Dossmann: "Freiburg's beauty laughs and again ..." The student associations in Freiburg im Breisgau . 1st edition. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2017, ISBN 978-3-944052-99-1 , p. 281 .
8. ↑ Martin Dossmann: "Freiburg's beauty laughs and again ..." The student associations in Freiburg im Breisgau . 1st edition. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2017, ISBN 978-3-944052-99-1 , p. 39 .
9. ↑ Martin Dossmann: "Freiburg's beauty laughs and again ..." The student associations in Freiburg im Breisgau . 1st edition. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2017, ISBN 978-3-944052-99-1 , p. 48 , fn. 200 .
10. ↑ Martin Dossmann: "Freiburg's beauty laughs and again ..." The student associations in Freiburg im Breisgau . 1st edition. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2017, ISBN 978-3-944052-99-1 , p. 65 .
11. ↑ Erich Bauer: The comradeships in the area of ​​the Kösener SC in the years 1937-1945 . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 1 (1956), p. 23.
12. ^ Holger Schwill: KSCV suburb Freiburg im Breisgau . In: KSCV and VAC, WSC and WVAC (eds.): Die Corps - Das Magazin . October 2017, p. 16 .
13. ^ The celebration of the laying of the foundation stone for the new corp house for "Suevia" in Freiburg i. Br. In: Academic monthly books . 26 (1909/10), p. 95.
14. ^ Günther Nitschke: Archive directory of the Corps Suevia in Freiburg i. Br. In: then and now. Volume 16, 1971, pp. 210-224.
15. ↑ So in time for the second. Text and melody.
16. ↑ Text of the color song on the homepage ( memento of the original from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ We are united at the good hour. Text and melody.
18. ^ Song booklet of the Corps Suevia in Freiburg for the 195th Foundation Festival , Freiburg 2010, pp. 18-19.